"The Sensitometer" is an allegory about a Brahmin who, inspired by the self-sacrifice of two starving children, invents a device using "orphan's tears" to measure human feeling . He sets 100 degrees using the self-sacrificing boy's heart, but the tears freeze solid when touched by a famously "virtuous" and pious woman, revealing her cold heart. Enraged, she denounces the device as satanic and incites a mob to destroy it, leaving the world with no way to measure true virtue.

Vrtanes Papazyan’s Paradise allegorical tale critiques tyranny and greed through the figure of Abdul Agha. The narrative emphasizes that true “paradise” arises not from oppression and luxury, but from justice and the liberation of the people.

"The Deer" by Vrtanes Papazian is a heartbreaking story about a mother deer and her newborn fawn. When the first winter snow covers the forest , the mother searches for food. The playful fawn wanders away from her and suddenly hears a gunshot. It runs back to find its mother mortally wounded, staining the snow with blood. The orphaned fawn stays by its cold, dead mother, crying , and eventually dies of cold and grief beside her. It is a tragic tale of lost innocence and the harshness of nature.

Arthur Burton is young, full of freedom-loving ideas and romantic illusions. Having survived the betrayal of his comrades and his beloved woman - having lost everything, he disappears, only to return completely different, with someone else's name and appearance. But under the mask of the matured, mocking and caustic Gadfly - the same impetuous Arthur, still faithful to the beautiful ideals of his youth. The romance of the national liberation struggle, the tragedy of a great, passionate and unhappy love, a fascinating plot with exciting intrigue and an unusually multifaceted and charming image of the main character - all this allowed the novel "The Gadfly" to become timeless.